tiistai 29. huhtikuuta 2014

We are on vacation and that means we have time to do things that cannot be done on weekends. One favourite is to visit the local waste tip to get rid of stuff that gathers when doing renovations. Yesterday we made two trips to the tip to get rid of the shop's floor and wall boards. Both the floor and the walls were in good(ish) condition under the old cardboards and wood boards.

The nails need to be removed from the floor before it can be painted (green). It will look great when finished, I am sure.

maanantai 28. huhtikuuta 2014

What do these things have in common? They look good together! The "silver" plate is once again a part from an old Singer sewing machine - I am going to buy a black leather string and use the plate as a necklace.

sunnuntai 27. huhtikuuta 2014

This has been a much loved toy of some little boy - at least it has been played with. There are parts missing and it must have been dropped onto the floor a time or two. Now the plane is retired and not to be touched.

torstai 24. huhtikuuta 2014

I won't even ask because there is no way for you to guess where this frame is from:

We were making a table leg from an old Singer sewing machine and my husband took the machine apart and this "frame" is one of the pieces left over. This was under the table board, we don't know what it was originally for and don't much care as it is a very beautiful as a frame for postcards.

tiistai 22. huhtikuuta 2014

The door between the bedroom and the living room is usually closed as we have our TV just behind the door. The view to living room looks nice, maybe we should ditch the TV and start enjoying the view instead.

maanantai 21. huhtikuuta 2014

And sometimes violets are creamy, too. I bought two flower stands from Stockmann's Crazy Days and just love them! They are perfect for violets as the height gives you a better view to the small flowers.

lauantai 19. huhtikuuta 2014

We started cleaning up our shop yesterday as we want to organize a fleamarket or two during the summer. My husband got a great idea to hang the extra chairs on the wall of the storage. Now we have more room to clean up and store things that are currently messing up the store floor.

torstai 17. huhtikuuta 2014

When we didn't have a cottage, a country house and two gardens I cut paper from magazines and glued the pieces together into animals. This ice bear hangs in our bedroom, an owl, a tiger and a giraffe are in the cellar.

tiistai 15. huhtikuuta 2014

I have been looking for a rectangular tray and found a perfect one at Kotka but it cost over 100 euros. I didn't had it in me to pay so much for a (beautiful) piece of metal and left the shop emptyhanded. Thankfully, as the very next day I found this one at a fleamarket for only 12 euros. It is not heavy and French as was the more expensive one but looks good enough.

I still need another and bigger rectangular tray as I'd like to have one on the wall behind the stove. I now have a very practical aluminium sheet there but an old tray would look better. The hunting continues...

lauantai 12. huhtikuuta 2014

If you don't enjoy washing up, don't buy white linen table cloths! We bought a runner for our new table and it took all of 20 minutes before the linen had stains from red wine. Luckily the 95 degree washing machine program got the runner white again - not so luckily I hate ironing and the linen is a pest to iron..

perjantai 11. huhtikuuta 2014

The tin box collection has gotten a couple of new members. A few more and the shelf won't be big enough. Maybe I should move the Paavo Nurmi relief or the red A to some other place. Not yet, though, have to find more tins first.

torstai 10. huhtikuuta 2014

We bought a new clock for the kitchen. It tick tocks really loud! We didn't exactly stay awake for the whole night because of it but you can really hear it as it resonates with the wall. If you don't hear this one, your hearing is gone for good - a good way to tell if you are getting old (not yet, folks!).

keskiviikko 9. huhtikuuta 2014

I like an idea of a perfume but don't actually enjoy strong fragrances. I bought a couple of scented soaps and put them in a glass jar with a lid. Now I can close the lid whenever the scent gets a bit too much thus having the cake and eating it too.

lauantai 5. huhtikuuta 2014

I bought these metal hearts in sale to decorate the garden next Christmas. As I didn't have the energy to pack them with other Christmas decorations I put them in an old tin pitcher that happened to be in the hall as I hadn't yet found it a place in the garden....one things leads to another and then you have a whole new decoration solution.

perjantai 4. huhtikuuta 2014

At this time of the year the only way to get some colour in the garden is to buy narcissus and other bulbs in pots. All the decorations have been outside for the whole winter but they start to look a bit sad in the bright spring light - some flowers make everything look better.

torstai 3. huhtikuuta 2014

I can call a blog post chick lit if it is about Easter chicks, can't I? As I already had the Easter eggs out of the closet I thought I can put the chicks on the table, too. It is never too early to start celebrating Easter!

keskiviikko 2. huhtikuuta 2014

The metal chairs are not the most comfortable ones in the spring -they are always too cold to sit on - you need to have pillows ready if you want to take a seat. We did not yet sit outside but lets hope it is possible on next weekend - even though the weather forecasts threaten that the weather will get colder.

tiistai 1. huhtikuuta 2014

We bought a "new" table for the living room. We had a big folding table but it wasn't very practical as it had three pairs of table legs, which left rather little space for human legs..

I surfed.tori.fi for about six weeks before finding this one. It is extendable and at the biggest it is 250 cm - plenty of room for eight people. With the table we got eight chairs. My husband upholstered four of the chairs with linen I had bought from flea market a couple of years ago. The chairs are now as good as new and we think the linen looks very good, even better than we hoped. We still need to do something to the tables surface as there are a lot of marks on it.